Exam Aesthetics Flashcards
1
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‘diversity harmonized’
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Beauty
2
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Aristotle’s notion of beauty
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- Metaphysics in Aesthetics
- a living creature
- Order, symmetry, and definiteness are chief forms of beauty.
- Mathematical sciences demonstrate these forms of beauty.
3
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Plato’s notion of beauty
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related to intelligence, goodness (Greek word: kalos), and can lead to knowledge.
4
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kalos
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Greek word for ‘beauty’ and ‘goodness’
5
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mimesis
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Imitation: an attempt at representing human experience
6
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Nietzsche’s Dionysian Principles
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- Ways of categorizing art
- chaotic/dynamic
7
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Nietzsche’s Apollonian Principles
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- Ways of categorizing art
- stylized/restrained
8
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The Sublime
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the feeling of awe, fear, pleasure, pain – in varying degrees
9
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Hutcheson on beauty
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the idea of a certain experience of pleasure that we have when we look at or listen to certain things
10
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Baumgarten on art & morality
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separating the art from the artist, they are separate
11
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Hegel on art & religion/science
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- we still need art, and will always need art, as long as there are science questions that has not been answered
- art is a language that speaks to us in away no other language can
